This thread by Jennifer Cohn is from August, but it caught my eye in light of the wheels within wheels turning out wingnuts armed to further the demise of popular democracy in this country. Long before there was the T-party and Trump, there was Morton Blackwell and the Leadership Institute.
Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢
29 Aug, 14 tweets, 5 min read
OMG I KNEW this critical race theory fake moral outrage reeked of Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute. Turns out I was right. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. But I didn’t know it for sure until this. 1/
The right-wing campaign to stifle teaching and discussion about racism in U.S. history and institutions is fearmongering about critical race theory to mobilize right-wing activists and conservative vo…https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-right-wing-political-machine-is-out-to-take-over-school-boards-by-fanning-fears-of-critical-race-theory/
2/ “The Leadership Institute, which has trained generations of right-wing activists, is promoting a 20-hour online course to train conservatives how to run 4 their local school boards in order to ‘stop the teaching of Critical Race Theory b4 it destroys the fabric of our nation.”
3/ Its why I’ve tweeted so much about Morton Blackwell lately. Examples:
4/ This guy. He teaches this to his thousands of Republican minions. They are more than happy to manufacture the necessary outrage. It’s their specialty.
5/ This is Morton Blackwell too. He’s all about political technology.
6/ THIS is an example of political technology. Morton must be very proud of the monster he created. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
7/ “An email promoting an online presentation about the Leadership Institute’s new training sessions, which begin on Aug. 9, declares that ‘conservatives are preparing a school board takeover and you can get involved.’”
The right-wing campaign to stifle teaching and discussion about racism in U.S. history and institutions is fearmongering about critical race theory to mobilize right-wing activists and conservative vo…https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-right-wing-political-machine-is-out-to-take-over-school-boards-by-fanning-fears-of-critical-race-theory/
8/ Yep. Check out their Twitter account. They are going for it alright.
9/ And they are training them young. Just like the Nazis did. This is scary stuff.
10/ “My right-wing degree
How I learned to convert liberal campuses into conservative havens at Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute, alma mater of Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, Jeff Gannon and two Miss Americas.” 5/25/05
How I learned to convert liberal campuses into conservative havens at Morton Blackwell’s Leadership Institute, alma mater of Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, Jeff Gannon and two Miss Americas.
11/ 4/10/21 https://theintercept.com/2021/04/10/campus-reform-koch-young-americans-for-freedom-leadership-institute/
A Billionaire-Funded Website With Ties to the Far Right Is Trying to “Cancel” University Professors
Campus Reform and its publisher, the Leadership Institute, are siccing armies of trolls on professors across the country.https://theintercept.com/2021/04/10/campus-reform-koch-young-americans-for-freedom-leadership-institute/
We on the left think ourselves pretty smart. Just not smart enough to invest long-term in furthering political goals we might not see come to fruition for decades. The right’s billionaires have no problem with investing for the long term.